Abstract
Corn plants (Zea mays L.) were grown in the field on two soils. On a droughty soil, water was withheld from some plants during the grain-filling period while other plants were irrigated. Carbon-14 was fed to the leaves, and translocation to different plant parts was determined. Translocation appeared to be more sensitive to moisture stress than was photosynthesis. More radioactive carbon was retained in both the fed portion and the nonfed portion of the leaf of stressed plants than in nonstressed plants. The stalk segment between the treated leaf and ear-node also contained less radioactivity in stressed plants than in nonstressed plants. On a soil with higher water-holding capacity, moisture stress was imposed on plants by root pruning. Plants under severe stress continued to translocate photosynthetically assimilated 14C nearly as well as nonstressed plants for 90 minutes. Between 90 and 120 minutes after labeling, there was a major reduction in amount translocated in stressed plants compared to the nonstressed plants. At longer translocation times the rates of translocation appeared again to be more nearly equal.
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